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RHYTHM IN MUSIC (Continued)

Creative Music Composing
Self-Teaching Manual



Self-Teaching Manual


By Paul Rodricks

Have you ever felt the urge to write your own songs? 
To compose your own lyrics and melody?
Are you a lyricist wishing to set music to your lyrics? 
Or a music composer desirous of writing the lyrics to
your music? Or a music lover and hobbyist wondering
how songs are crafted? 

If so, Creative Music Composing 
is just the right practical
self-teaching manual for you. Because Songwriting has
never been made so easy and simple.

The Manual  covers all the music aspects of Writing Melodies– melody notes, tonality of scales and harmony in chord progressions and rhythm. You begin from learning to create simple melodies to composing complete performing versions of songs by using the Digital Numbering System, the Solfeggio (do-re-mi) and ABCDEFG notation methods. 

Become a successful Songwriter.  Compose your
own Lyrics and Music to styles such as Pop, Rock,
Blues, Country, R&B, Jazz, Gospel and others.


Read here the Preview of the Section 3 from Creative Music Composing by Paul Rodricks:

Section 3

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you’ll find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.”
 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

RHYTHM IN MUSIC (Continued)


    Examples of changing from Simple to Compound Time.
    Fig. 26 - Changing Simple to Compound Time


     In 6/8 time signature, the eight note (half of the common quarter note) receives one beat and there are six beats to a measure.
     
Fig.  27 - The 6/8 Time Signature. The number below the note indicates the number of beats per note.

              Beats:             3    3       1   1   1    2      1              6

     Music Note Values & Rhythm              

    Fig. 28 – Rhythmic Divisions of the Music Notes:


     We shall now go into a detailed study of the rhythmic values of the musical notes.

     You can see from the three examples of different Time Signatures shown below {Figs.28(a) 29, 29(a) & 29(b), the changing  rhythmic values of the common musical note against the corresponding number of beats each receives for the duration of the note, including a quarter-note rest period in the fourth bar of the second example (Fig. 29(a)}:

    Fig.28(a) - Illustrating the Common Notes Timing:


     Fig. 28(a)  –  Continued
     Illustrating the Common Notes Timing:


     Figs. 29, 29(a) and 29(b) – Specific Note Duration Values in Common Time Signatures:

     Fig. 29


     Fig.  29 - continued

     Fig. 29(a)


    Fig. 29(b)



To be continued...

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SECTION 3 - Rhythm in Music

Creative Music Composing
Self-Teaching Manual



Releasing soon......

Self-Teaching Manual




By Paul Rodricks

Have you ever felt the urge to write your own songs? 
To compose your own lyrics and melody?
Are you a lyricist wishing to set music to your lyrics? 
Or a music composer desirous of writing the lyrics to
your music? Or a music lover and hobbyist wondering
how songs are crafted? 

If so, Creative Music Composing 
is just the right practical
self-teaching manual for you. Because Songwriting has
never been made so easy and simple.

The Manual  covers all the music aspects of Writing Melodies– melody notes, tonality of scales and harmony in chord progressions and rhythm. You begin from learning to create simple melodies to composing complete performing versions of songs by using the Digital Numbering System, the Solfeggio (do-re-mi) and ABCDEFG notation methods. 

Become a successful Songwriter.  Compose your
own Lyrics and Music to styles such as Pop, Rock,
Blues, Country, R&B, Jazz, Gospel and others.


Read here the Preview of the Section 3 from Creative Music Composing by Paul Rodricks:

Section 3

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you’ll find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.”
 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Rhythm in Music

Time Signatures
                      
    Before or in front of the Clef, at the beginning of each melody is the time-signature.
    We have two types of Time Signatures, Simple and Compound Time.
    The simple time, also known as the common time Signatures being:

 2/4
3/4
4/4
6/8

    The other simple Time Signatures are: 2/8, 2/2, 3/8, 3/2, 4/8 and 4/2
     Compound Time Signatures are: 6/4, 6/2, 9/8, 9/4, 9/2, 12/8, 12/4 and 12/2.

The Meaning of Time Signature

      The upper number indicates the number of “beats” in a bar or measure.  The “beat” is equivalent to tapping your foot in time [(down - and (up) in a quarter note] to music or the metronome
     
     Bottom number tells us what type of note gets one beat.  The bottom value is generally the number 4, which is a quarter note (1/4) receiving one beat. 
See below examples of the most common time signatures, namely 3/4 and 4/4 ones:

     Fig. 20 - Interpreting 3/4 Time Signature 


Fig. 21 – Interpreting 4 /4 Time Signature & Note Duration Values


Common Time                   
                  
    Letter C appearing in place of the time signature means Common Time, which is 4/4 time.
    You will also come across other time-signature of time values, such as 2/2, which is a faster tempo, known as cut-time and is represented other times as a C stricken with a (slash) /.

     Fig. 22  - Examples of Common and Cut Common Time Signature


Simple and Compound Time
               
    Then there are Uneven time signatures like 3/8, 5/4, 5/8, 7/8, 9/8, 11/8 and 12/8, rarely used in western music or songs, except some in Jazz music.
    These are Simple Time and Compound Time Notes:

    Fig. 23 - Simple & Compound Time Notes


                                                Simple        Compound

     For an example of 5/8 Uneven Time, there are 2 Beats to the Bar, one beat of Simple Time and one beat of Compound Time.  

      Fig. 24 - 5/8 Uneven Time      
                                                                        Triplet
                                                      1. Simple   2. Compound

     In the example of 9/8 Uneven Time below, we have 4 Beats to the Bar and three simple time beats and one compound time [triplet] beat.

     Fig. 25 - 9/8 Uneven Time 
                                                  1     2    3    4
               Simple          Compound


To be continued...



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Preview of Section 2 - MUSIC NOTES/TONES

Creative Music Composing
Self-Teaching Manual



Releasing soon......

Self-Teaching Manual


By Paul Rodricks

Have you ever felt the urge to write your own songs? 
To compose your own lyrics and melody?
Are you a lyricist wishing to set music to your lyrics? 
Or a music composer desirous of writing the lyrics to
your music? Or a music lover and hobbyist wondering
how songs are crafted? 

If so, Creative Music Composing 
is just the right practical
self-teaching manual for you. Because Songwriting has
never been made so easy and simple.

The Manual  covers all the music aspects of Writing Melodies– melody notes, tonality of scales and harmony in chord progressions and rhythm. You begin from learning to create simple melodies to composing complete performing versions of songs by using the Digital Numbering System, the Solfeggio (do-re-mi) and ABCDEFG notation methods. 

Become a successful Songwriter.  Compose your
own Lyrics and Music to styles such as Pop, Rock,
Blues, Country, R&B, Jazz, Gospel and others.


Read here the Preview of the Section 2 from Creative Music Composing by Paul Rodricks:


Section 2


The Music Notes/Tones
                        
    Music notes are written on the lines and in the spaces of the Staff.   
   
    Names of the notes on the lines of the music Staff can be remembered as Every Good Boy Does Fine and those that appear in the spaces, between the lines of the Staff, as F A C E.

    Below Figures 9 & 10 – Showing Music Notes on the Lines and in the Spaces of the Staff.

    Fig.  9 -  Music Notes on the Staff Lines

                       E        G        B         D         F


Fig. 10  –  Music Notes between the lines – in Spaces of the Staff

                         F          A          C           E



The Ledger Lines                  

    When the range of notes goes outside the staff on its either side, towards top or bottom, the notes are placed on short lines called the “ledger lines”.

Fig.  11  – The Ledger Lines on G Clef & Bass Clef  

                                                              G     A     B     C      D    E   F    G
     


                                                    F    E     D     C      B     A    G     F



The Staff Pitch Symbols

The Treble & Bass Clefs
               
    The pitch or tone of any musical note on the staff is determined by placing a graphical sign called the Clef at the extreme left-hand side of the staff.  By establishing the pitch of the note on one particular line of the staff, the Clef thereby fixes the pitch of all the other notes lying on, or related to the same staff.

The Treble or G Clef

    The treble clef is also called the G clef because the inner curve of the clef symbol marks the horizontal line associated with the note G above middle C. The treble clef is actually a stylized letter G.


Fig.  12 - The Treble or G Clef

 Generally, melody for most instruments including the guitar, keyboard and vocals [sight reading] is written in the G Clef.

The Bass or F Clef                                   
                       
    The Bass Clef is also called the F Clef because the two dots in the symbol which lie above and below the horizontal line are associated with the note F below middle C. The Bass Clef symbol is actually a stylized letter F.

Fig.  13 – The Bass or F Clef

    The Bass or F Clef is the one you see, for instance, on the keyboard sheet music written below the G Clef for playing the harmony – the chords – with your left hand.

The below figure shows both symbols as they are positioned on the music staff.

    Fig. 14 - Music Notes of the C Major Scale as written on the Treble and Bass Clefs



Treble Clef Notes

    Below Figure shows the melody notes of the C Major Scale in 4/4 time, corresponding to the notes of the piano/keyboard from the middle C to the high octave C, ascending and descending:-

    Fig. 15 - Treble Clef Notes of the C Major Scale






Music Keyboard Notes
                                          
    In the following diagram the piano/organ keyboard picture shows the middle C from which note you play the melody with the right-hand. You will also notice that from below Middle C the Bass Clef notes start, namely B A G F E D C B A G F E D C (as played with the left hand).

Fig. 16 – The Piano/Organ Keyboard
                            ·       Middle C                                            
The names of the C Major scale notes as they appear on the staff of G Clef and Bass Clef :

    Bass Clef Notes
                  
    From the following examples in Figures 18 and 19 , you would learn the names of the notes written on the lines and in the spaces of the staff for Bass, F clef sheet music:-
    
Fig. 18 – C Major Scale Notes on Lines of the Bass Clef                       
                         G         B        D        F         A
                        G ood   B oys  D o     F ine    A lways 

   Fig. 19 - C Major Scale Notes in the space, between lines, of the Bass Clef:
                              A            C            E            G                                                          All          C ows     E at         G rass 
            

NEXT: SECTION 3

Rhythm in Music


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